Motivational Quotes - Page 83

It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.

So, my unsolicited advice to women in the workplace is this. When faced with sexism, or ageism, or lookism, or even really aggressive Buddhism, ask yourself the following question: “Is this person in between me and what I want to do?” If the answer is no, ignore it and move on. Your energy is better used doing your work and outpacing people that way. Then, when you’re in charge, don’t hire the people who were jerky to you.

Successful people have fear, successful people have doubts, and successful people have worries. They just don't let these feelings stop them.

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

To finish first, you must first finish.

True happiness comes not when we get rid of all of our problems,but when we change our relationship to them, when we see our problems as a potential source of awakening, opportunities to practice, and to learn.

There is no shop, book, or person, that gives you confidence; it comes through reconnecting with your true authentic self.

I find it best to dive right in and learn the hard way.

Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. Yet each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence and thus each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better... or quit. Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future.

Whatever you believe, you become.

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

Let us pick up our books and our pens. They are our most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.

I claim to be no more than the average person with less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.

Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.

Do 40 hard minutes, not an hour and a half of nonsense.

Be the change you want to see in your networks

I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.

Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.

Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.

The difference between good and great is just a little extra effort.

Running is a road to self-awareness and reliance-you can push yourself to extremes and learn the harsh reality of your physical and mental limitations or coast quietly down a solitary path watching the earth spin beneath your feet.

Complacency is the forerunner of mediocrity. You can never work too hard on attitudes, effort and technique.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.